Read Out Loud (Text-to-Speech) for PDF needs to be better.

[AntDX316]

Read Out Loud (Text-to-Speech) needs to be better. Sure, before AI exist, the old 1990 voice is alright but it has to sound better especially when people are paying a premium subscription per month. It should sound better and more natural.

The place where the voice is talking should at least highlight the word and there should be a button to know where it's at. The page should automatically scroll to where that is with a checkbox.

Some PDFs are super long as it's going to be hard to know where the location is.

Selecting different voices would be better.

There needs to be a way to set the page ranges like a printer so stuff is omitted when reading the whole thing such as the index and the end references.

There should be a way to read what is selected, not just the page or the paragraph only.

[Amal. · Accepted solution]

Hi @AntDX316 

Hope you are doing well and thanks for sharing your observation.

You may also share your feedback directly to our engineering team using the link https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Thanks

Amal

[AntDX316]

Send the feedback for me.

[Niki@WSU]

Dear Amal,

Has this request been sent to your engineering team? Acrobat (and Adobe in general) are WAY, WAY behind the times on this. The very robotic and non-human voice for the Read Out Loud feature is painful to listen to. It doesn't pause at the end of paragraphs and makes everything sound like a run-on sentence. I'm sure this was ground-breaking in 1980, but we are now in the year of our lord two thousand twenty-four!